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Green Bar

 

Green bar - 2, 3 and 4 ply. Preprinted forms, also with 1, 2 and 3 ply versions. Various types, weights and colors of 8X11 inch paper. We had three different printers using different types of paper. I spent 9 years in that particular computer room, more of a glorified print shop, before finally getting my programmer position. Once I became a programmer, I found we used a LOT of paper creating printout, reports, documentation, etc. We were burning forests!

 

not to mention every household on the planet now has printers.

 

In 1996, I worked at a bank that printed a 200-page deposit balance report every day on a laser printer—just to reconcile totals on the final page. The other 199 pages were shredded. And that was just one of dozens of reports we printed daily, five days a week.
To eliminate the waste and streamline operations, I developed a program that downloaded each report as a plain text (.txt) file and printed only the final page. We eventually applied this solution across all reports, limiting printouts to pages needed for reconcilement or customer mailings.
I later sold the program to our data processing company, which marketed it to other banks they serviced. With a 50/50 revenue split, that simple efficiency tool generated over a million dollars in income to me over the next 15 years.

 

Company I worked at years ago had a "sacred cow" contest. Basically find out why some things are done and see if there is a better way to do it.
I was in IT and supported our entire system. We had a month end accounting report that would run for hours, printed on that green bar paper. If something happened and the report jammed up, we had to restart the print again. Every month we seemed to have a delay with processing, ran out of paper, had a jam, ribbon wore out, etc. I asked the basic question of "what is used from this report?" I was told, the accountant verifies the amounts on the first and last page, then it's filed away "incase" we are audited. I suggested that we print the first and last pages, then electronically file the entire report (including the printed pages). The accounting manager about blew a gasket at the suggestion, how dare I attempt to change their process. I found out when the accountant showed up for the monthly check and asked them about the report. They were like "yeah, that's cool, we very rarely need the full report and if we can verify the data matches we are good." This one change saved us hours on a good run and up to days when there were problems. The accounting dept manager hated me for months because I dared suggest there was a better way to do their job.

It always amazed me how set in stone some people are, and have the mentality why change what works.
Had another company where we ran a process that took hours to churn through the data, this process had to run 2x a day and just before commissions processing. I thought, there's no way it should take that long. Took a deep dive into the code, found that the developer had it rebuilding the tax code table for every sales order processed. Taxes don't change that much or that often, some code refactoring and the process was down to 10min. Knowing our operations dept, I forewarned them that the process would run much, much faster and would complete in minutes. Still got calls for a week from operations saying "the process failed, it finished too fast". I would ask, what was the error message. There was none, they just thought it should take hours. The commissions team was concerned that data was getting skipped so I had to run both processes and show that the output was identical.

 

True statement,,, only thing is ,, I believe 90 % of the poll workers that are there ,, because they back the candidates that needs cheating done .

 

You've seen it before, just not in color.